Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.
Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.
Confused? Try What Is FRBR? (2.8 MB PDF) by Barbara Tillett, or Jenn Riley's introduction. For more, see the basic reading list.
Books: FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert Maxwell (ISBN 9780838909508) and Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools edited by Arlene Taylor (ISBN 9781591585091) (read my chapter FRBR and the History of Cataloging).
Following up on my mention of Arlene Taylor last week: I noticed on her home page that she has some presentation slides online, including Metadata, FRBR, and New Challenges (1.4 MB PDF) from October 2004. It’s an introduction, so you’ll probably recognize much of it, but she mentions RDF and the Semantic Web at the end. Too bad there’s no video of it available. Perhaps that will become more common in the next couple of years.